Yang Liwei took off from Jiuquan in northwest China.

杨利伟从中国西北部的酒泉起飞。

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I was born in 1968 in a small town in northwest China.

我出生于1968年，中国西北方的一个小城镇。

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We are a manufacturer and exporter of garment in northwest China.

我们是一家制造商和出口商的服装在大西北。

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He returned home because of the ethnic violence in Xinjiang province in northwest China.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

Mr. Deng last week told The Wall Street Journal that he had planned to bring his wife to Beijing from their home province of Shaanxi, in northwest China, but had been thwarted after unidentified men prevented them from getting into a taxi at the hospital late Friday night.

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As described by ice sculptor Joseph Amendola in his book Ice Carving Made Easy, written records dating back to 600 BC reveal that in the highlands of northwest China, farmers would flood their fields with water, wait for it to freeze, harvest blocks of ice and then store them in insulated facilities to help preserve perishables like seafood.

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